ladepensy / pi-as-keyboard

Make your Raspberry act as a Keyboard

Pi-as-keyboard

Make your Raspberry Pi act like a Keyboard via HID emulation.

The main purpose of this script is to make the Pi emulate a keyboard when connected to a computer.

Information

This project is voluntary work and is small and simple designed to be used as a base for more complex projects (like hot keyboard remapping, etc)

This has been tested on my Raspberry Pi Zero W on the 21st of March 2016.

WARNING

⚠️️⚠️️Do not connect the Pi using the power connector. Use the data port instead.

Kernel Warning

Since 2017 the default Kernel on the Rpi W seems broken with keyboard emulation. To fix the problem upgrade to the latest version with the rpi-update command (not installed by default)

Install

On the Pi and run the setup script.

$ sudo ./setup.sh
$ sudo reboot

Test the setup

This script will send scancodes to the computer connected to the Pi.

$ sudo test.sh